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  • October 2013 (Revised October 2013)
  • Case

Rhythm & Blues

By: Willy Shih
The bankruptcy filing of Rhythm & Hues, who received an Oscar for the arresting visual effects in Life of Pi, raised questions about the challenges faced by the firms like it as well as the broader post-production industry. The rapid pace of technology certainly... View Details
Keywords: Post-production; Visual Effects; Digital; Entertainment; Animation Entertainment; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Theater Entertainment; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Los Angeles
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  • Article

Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer
In this article, we summarize our research on the value of intermittency for complex problem solving at work and give practical advice on how organizations can improve the rhythm of their people's collaboration. Executives have been counseled to be collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Problem Solving; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Internet and the Web; Leadership
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    Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

    Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

    • November 1997 (Revised July 1999)
    • Case

    Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (A)

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Mikelle Eastley
    Examines the choices Guidant must make in research and development spending and new product development. More specifically, CEO Jay Graf considers the payoffs and tradeoffs of using product development skills that he learned in CPI's core business when applied to a... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Development; Business or Company Management; Management Skills; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Communication; Product Design; Market Design; Organizational Design; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • November 1997 (Revised July 1999)
    • Case

    Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (B)

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Mikelle Eastley
    Supplements the (A) case. View Details
    Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • Aug 30 2017
    • Interview

    Break the Daily Rhythm to Foster Creative Insights

    • September 2023
    • Article

    The Dynamics of Team Learning: Harmony and Rhythm in Teamwork Arrangements for Innovation

    By: Jean-François Harvey, Johnathan R. Cromwell, Kevin J. Johnson and Amy C. Edmondson
    Innovation teams must navigate inherent tensions between different learning activities to produce high levels of performance. Yet, we know little about how teams combine these activities—notably reflexive, experimental, vicarious, and contextual learning—most... View Details
    Keywords: Groups and Teams; Learning; Performance Effectiveness; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
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    • July 1999 (Revised July 1999)
    • Teaching Note

    Guidant: Cardiac Rhythm Management Business (A) and (B) TN

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Edward T Smith
    Teaching Note for (9-698-021) and (9-698-024). View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Product Marketing; Health Industry
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    • August 2003 (Revised August 2006)
    • Case

    I've Got Rhythm: Selling Cardiac Rhythm Management Devices

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger, William Lagor, Christopher Perry and Scott St. Germain
    The head of sales and marketing in a large medical devices firm must decide how to assign his sales force. He compares selling in the pharma, specialty pharma, and device industries and analyzes the reasons for the differences. View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Marketing Strategy; Industry Structures; Sales; Salesforce Management; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • December 1980 (Revised November 1982)
    • Background Note

    Rhythms of the Semester: Overall Preparation, Evolving Roles, and Special Classes

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    • 2014
    • Article

    Attentional Rhythm: A Temporal Analogue of Object-Based Attention

    By: Julian De Freitas, Brandon Liverence and Brian J. Scholl
    The underlying units of attention are often discrete visual objects. Perhaps the clearest form of evidence for this is the same-object advantage: Following a spatial cue, responses are faster to probes occurring on the same object than they are to probes occurring on... View Details
    Keywords: Object-based Attention; Rhythm; Music Perception; Auditory Perception
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain

    By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
    How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds... View Details
    Keywords: Helping; Rhythm; Prosocial Behavior; External Team Leadership; Social Construction; Time; Qualitative Methods; Field Research; Groups and Teams; Projects; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • August 2018
    • Article

    Deep Help in Complex Project Work: Guiding and Path-Clearing Across Difficult Terrain

    By: Colin M. Fisher, Julianna Pillemer and Teresa M. Amabile
    How do teams working on complex projects get the help they need? Our qualitative investigation of the help provided to project teams at a prominent design firm revealed two distinct helping processes, both characterized by deep, sustained engagement that far exceeds... View Details
    Keywords: Helping; Rhythm; Prosocial Behavior; External Team Leadership; Social Construction; Time; Qualitative Methods; Field Research; Groups and Teams; Projects; Behavior; Leadership; Social and Collaborative Networks
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    • July 2020
    • Background Note

    Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
    Leaders use seven leadership skills in conceiving and managing change projects, whether innovations in established organizations, culture and process changes, or entrepreneurial ventures for industry or social change. The skills leaders need are different at various... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Management Skills
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    • Awards

    Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein
    Winner of the 2020 Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize for the most outstanding MIT Sloan Management Review article on planned change and organizational development for ““Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration” (Fall 2019) with Jesse Shore and David Lazer. View Details
    • 19 Mar 2013
    • News

    Can Light Make You More Honest at Work?

    • 28 Feb 2010
    • News

    America, the fragile empire

    • 25 Mar 2020
    • News

    Anne McElvoy goes out of office

    • May 3, 2023
    • Article

    What Top-Performing Sales Managers Do Differently

    By: Mike Schultz and Frank V. Cespedes
    Sales managers hire reps, influence their training, provide (we hope) feedback and so reinforce good selling behaviors, and are key in the execution of growth and change initiatives. In a study of more than 1,000 sales managers and sellers across industries, we found... View Details
    Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Sales; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 09 Jan 2020
    • News

    The Future of Everything: One Architect’s Radical Vision To Replace The Open Office